The Potters House is blessed to have average attendance of about 7,000. They have three layers of security: facility control, crowd control, and executive protection. There are armed members of the safety team. Check out the “aggressive friendliness” as a screening tool.

It is sad to be in a world where it is necessary to focus attention on physical security as a priority during Sunday morning worship. Yet it is a very real issue. A church doesn’t have to get a lot of visibility before it attracts credible death threats and other severe security risks.

Unfortunately, more pastors and more governing boards need to consider security needs for the church campus.

7/23 – Robert Cooper Jr at Chronicle of Philanthropy – Why Taking Legal Action Against Charity Fraud Is So Hard– Written by the former Attorney General of Tennessee, the article points out several of the reasons it is so difficult to take enforcement action against egregiously out-of-line charities.

Limited funding for regulators, complexities of multistate coordination, high barrier to clear First Amendment issues, and difficulty in proving fraud are a few of the issues.

Check out the article if you have been wondering why it took four years for the FTC and all AGs to take action against the four cancer charities or are curious why there aren’t lots more such cases in the pipeline.

On complexity in general

Here is a bit less dark article, describing the complexity of the charity world: